Prepare your students for college and career readiness with this content-packed resource. This resource, authored by Lori Oczkus and Timothy Rasinski, features close-reading strategies, reciprocal teaching, paired fiction and nonfiction texts, text sets, text-dependent questions, and connections to the Daily Five, to enable educators to incorporate different learning opportunities into instruction to help build essential comprehension skills. Each book includes 12 units across... Read full description

Prepare your students for college and career readiness with this content-packed resource.

This resource, authored by Lori Oczkus and Timothy Rasinski, features close-reading strategies, reciprocal teaching, paired fiction and nonfiction texts, text sets, text-dependent questions, and connections to the Daily Five, to enable educators to incorporate different learning opportunities into instruction to help build essential comprehension skills. Each book includes 12 units across the four content areas of Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics.

Each unit incorporates the following:

• Paired fiction and nonfiction text passages that deal with the same content
• Text-dependent activities that students complete after reading
• Comparing and contrasting of the fiction and nonfiction text passages
• Hands-on activities to pull together all of the ideas from a week's worth of work
• Differentiation strategies and assessment options to tailor to multiple intelligences and monitor students' progress

Just the Facts: Close Reading and Comprehension of Informational Text
Use informational text in the classroom effectively to support close reading and comprehension. This dynamic resource provides a clear explanation of how to use informational text in the classroom and includes practical tips, suggestions, lesson ideas to use with students, and digital resources. Aligned to the Common Core and other state standards, this is the perfect tool to enhance students' comprehension of informational text. 256 pages + CD. Grades K-8 Short description